Improvement in corn-shellers



fiaitexl' gtatw Mac) ELl HU DOUD, 0 F OSHKOSH, W ISCONSIN.

Letters PatentNo. 84,17 3, (Ia-ted November 17, 1868.

ov-o The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same:

To all whomtt may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIHUDOUD, of the city of Oshkosh, county of Winnebago, and State of XVisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gorn-Shellers; and I do hereby declare the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference bcing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the outer cylinder or shell, (I of; fig. 1, as it would appear flattened out.

A A is a rectangularframe, with sides and ends enclosed.

B is also arectangular frame, with sides and ends enclosed, and located inside or the frame .A A, and hinged to the sides thereof by a rod running horizontally through both A A and B at 1:, the opposite end of the frame B resting on the spring S, and free to move in the direction. of the spring.

' Inside the frame B, and attached to the sides thereof, is a half cylindrical shell, constructed in three sections, seen in. (I, e, and f. The section (I is a segment, constructed with teeth, arranged in horizontal rows. The section 1: is a segment, constructed with open grates running in the longitudinal direction of the machine. The-section f is a segment, constructed with open grates running crosswise. The three segments, when united,

-forr1r an outer shell, of ahalf circular form.

C isan extension of the toothed segment in a perpendicular direction.

t is a toothedn'oller, with teeth arranged parallel to its axis.

O is a hopper and cover.

It is anincline, that receives the cobs.

k is an outer passage, for fragments of corn shelled on the segment f.

g is a delivery of the corn shelled.

I will now proceed to describe the operation of my invention. The corn in cob is placed in the hopper O,

and received in a horizontal position between the toothed plate 0 and the toothed roller t. The toothed roller i is revolved either in the use of a crank, by hand, or in the use of a pulley, friction-wheel, or cog-wheel,

. with power applied.

As the roller 5 revolves, the corn is brought between the toothed roller and the toothed segment (I, andthe corn nearly or quite all stripped from the cob. The teeth on both cylinder and roller being arranged horizontally, the cob is retained in a horizontal position, and thus carried over the segn'ient c; and on the passage of the cob over the horizontal cross-bars f, the cob is stripped of any corn there may be remaining thereon, and is then thrown out over the segment 1, and discharged over the incline It.

The segment 0 is composed of longitudinal open bars, and the corn shelled on the segment cl escapes through the same into the discharge-conductor g. The corn shelled on the open cross-bar segment f is received in the conductor It, and emptied into the discharge-conductor 1/.

The spring S allows the outer cylinder, (1 c f, to accommodate itself to the dilferent-sized ears as they come in contact between the outer shell and the toothed roller t. y

The toothed plate 0, being really a continuation of the hopper to the cylinder and roller, may be either wholly or partially of a plane surface, adoption.

I disclaim the toothed roller 2', the plate 0, the hopper 0', and the spring S, when in and of themselves considered; but

What I do claima-s my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An outer half cylindrical shell, constructed in segments, (3 c f, in the manner described, when used in combination with the toothed-roller t, spring S, plate 0, and hopper Q, as and for the purposes described.

ELIHU DOUD. \Vitnesses:

W. G. RITcH, GEO. W. BURNELL. 

